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The National forum should be very accessible for new managers, perhaps with a link in the step-by-step introduction list, also explaining how to get there manually, and set as a standard favorite in "Forums".

You are right, finding things on the forums without being a supporter is impossible.

I think as a standard, a new player should have the NT forum, the standard english help forum and the standard english forum set as favorites. SO that when they click on forums they have these directly available...

Secondly, but this is a suggestion off topic (it would be nice to be able to bookmark forum topics) I dont think the BB forums are easily to use

All of the above

just tried to invite my girlfriend, she followed the link in the email and received:

Server Error in '/' Application.
The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.

Requested URL: /BB/Web/default.aspx

temp problem?

there is a bug forum. I would suggest to post it in there...

Maybe a mentoring system could be put in place.

If managers could leave other managers comments;

Friendly and helpful
Argumentative and awkward
Communicative and knowledgeable

or

Someone I like and agree with all of the time
Someone I like and agree with some of the time etc
down to
Someone I strongly disagree with

If managers were graded by others it would help newbies take information they read with a pinch of salt or for real.

We all have our favourite posters (and most hated) and so for others to take lead or work with a mentor you would build up a trustworthy or untrustworthy profile for others to see.

Admittedly i'm rambling now and no doubt falling into the 'controversial but this guy does seem to know what he is doing' category.

Thoughts?

Imo the initial money is fine. Any more and it would be overkill. I'm constantly battleing the new users on TL and most of them are coming in for a week spend their money and leave. I like that it's challenging to make money and the reward is much greater after you have been saving for a month or more to get something decent from the TL.

i frankly dont get the distinction between fantasy basketball and a sports simulation... i mean in some sense isn't fantasy basketball a really really lame game engine? where you aren't playing a game like basketball but it is a game, with real life players, that you control.... Maybe fantasy sports need licensing fees too... but I dont see how we would be any worse off on legal ground than a fantasy basketball site.

EDIT: i am not a lawyer... obviously we would probably be sued and thats probably all it comes down to... so i'm not saying buzzerbeater thinks we can do this.

I am also not a lawyer. However, if you think about video games for various sports, they need to get licensing from the leagues to use the team names and player names. I see this website as much more like a video game, where you're running a team, rather than a fantasy sports game, where everything is based on real-world (e.g., NBA) stats.

I think BB-Forrest's point is that "everything is based on real-world (e.g. NBA) stats" is not true. Fantasy sports have a point system, and you can have different point systems. What is the legal seperation between a point system and a Game Engine? Both of them take in stats as inputs and produce winners as outputs? You don't control the players, or directly "play" a basketball game.

I suspect that the right legal decision will indeed result in all fantasy sports will need to have licenses, or that all video games don't need licenses. I think right now the sports franchises just want to have their cake and eat it.. they want to charge licenses cause they think they can make money that way, but they want fantasy sports cause they realize it builds brand loyalty etc and they realize fantasy sports would probably die if there were licensing fees and it would be very hard to regulate because statistics are so widely spread. All they feasibly could do is push fantasy sports into the same places pirated music have retreated to. You cannot freely disseminate information and then except people to just consume it and not reuse it to make other things. I think Colbert's interview last week with the copyright author made this point fantastically.

http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/cc_insider/2009/01/col...

hmm... buzzerbeater is based in boston you know?